Jane Hamilton Quotes

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

Jane Hamilton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

MeSomeoneSkinKnowMy OwnSee

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

Jenna Bush

WalkTiredEnergyYouUpLevel

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

John Clare

TimePoetryGreenTreesLovedDie

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Anna Jameson

AspireSenseSomeEarnestly

It's true that my research expertise is in biology: for example, the Ebola virus, the Marburg virus, and monkey pox, and not bacteriology as in the case of the anthrax organism. It's also true that I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life. It's a separate field from the research I was performing at Fort Detrick.

Steven Hatfill

LifeResearchMy LifeBiologyTrue

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

Roger Avary

LoveMyselfWorldYouSaidWrite

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

Jay Baruchel

HomeAmericanBackCanadaDoneGone

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.

Jon Katz

LoveLiveMirrorPeopleWritingYou

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Donnie Yen

HistoryWorldArtsMartial ArtsWere

You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Donald Johanson

YouHumanSomewhereJustSwitch

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

Cheryl Strayed

FriendPeopleAdviceYouPersonUp

I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.

Chris Stapleton

GoodMusicMountainTrainingChurch

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

Clifford Irving

TrainJumpOffLies

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jane Hamilton